Short EUR/USD (From 18-Oct to 23-Oct)
Real-Time AmpGFX – squaring short EUR and NZD positions (Tue 10/23/2018 4:50 AM MT) Bought one unit EUR at 1.1475 Bought one unit NZD at 0.6563 Comment At risk of appearing indecisive, I have decided to close both short positions in NZD and EUR. Price action has un-nerved me, with the broad weakness in […]
Short EUR/CHF (From 18-Oct to 19-Oct)
Real-Time AmpGFX – Bought to close short in EUR/CHF (Fri 10/19/2018 7:57 AM MT) Bought EUR/CHF at 1.1430 to close short position Comment Markets are skittish and reacting and encouraging profit-taking into the weekend. We presume risk is towards a rebound into the weekend in global equities, led by the rebound in Chinese equities. […]
Short AUD/NZD (From 17-Oct to 18-Oct)
Real-Time AmpGFX – Sold AUD/NZD to square long position (Thu 10/18/2018 9:46 AM MT) Sold one unit of AUD/NZD at 1.0855 Comment The AUD may struggle more than NZD on concerns that appear to be still building over China. China mainland equities fell sharply on Thursday to new lows, and CNY continues to slide. […]
Short AUD/USD (10-Oct )
This trade was stopped out at the adjusted stop loss order at a small profit Real-Time AmpGFX – AUD orders adjustment (Wed 10/10/2018 3:23 PM MT) We mentioned that we were going to treat this trade as a short-term “day trade” based largely on what we expected to be some further follow-through selling in the […]
Short EUR/USD (From 5-Oct to 10-Oct)
Real-Time AmpGFX – Bought EUR/USD to close short position (Wed 10/10/2018 8:56 AM MT) Bought EUR/USD at 1.1533 to close short position Comment Optimism is building for a deal on Brexit being produced by Monday We see the updraft in the GBP as potentially quite large and this could drag up the EUR and weaken […]
Short AUD/USD (From 4-Oct to 10-Oct)
Stopped out on 10-Oct Real-Time AmpGFX – Sold AUD/USD on China espionage story (Thu 10/4/2018 10:41 AM MT) Sold one unit AUD/USD at 0.7575 Comment We have been reluctant to get involved in the fast-moving markets in the last day or so following the break up in US yields, on the basis that we risk […]
Short NZD/CAD ( From 14-Sep to 20-Sep)
Real-Time AmpGFX – Assessment after NZD surge (Thu 9/20/2018 2:24 PM MT) We were stopped out of our short CAD/NZD position today on the rise in the pair through 0.8623. The principal cause is the rebound in the NZD following a stronger than expected GDP report yesterday. In the global risk-on rebound this week, the […]
Assessment after NZD surge
We were stopped out of our short CAD/NZD position today on the rise in the pair through 0.8623. The principal cause is the rebound in the NZD following a stronger than expected GDP report yesterday. In the global risk-on rebound this week, the NZD may have been playing catch-up. The NZ data trend has been […]
Short AUD/USD (From 17-Sep to 19-Sep)
Trade was stopped out on 19-Sep Real-Time AmpGFX – Raising AUD/USD s/l to better reflect technical resistance (Tue 9/18/2018 9:54 AM MT) As AUD rises to approach our stop-loss, we have re-evaluated and decided that our s/l is too vulnerable to be taken out within range highs. We still tend to think the tariff news […]
Short EUR/CAD (From 12-Sep to 14-Sep)
We were stopped out of a short EUR/CAD position on a move through our stop loss at 1.5223, executed at 1.52252 on Friday (14-Sep). Real-Time AmpGFX – Sold EUR/CAD (Wed 9/12/2018 9:54 AM MT) Sold one unit EUR/CAD at 1.5117 Comment We still see positive movements on a US-Canada trade deal. Reports that the US […]